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LEADER FOR SOARF NEGKBANDS. No. 388,983. Patented Sept. 4', 1888.

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NITED STATES PATENT l I IQlEO MICHAEL D. LEVY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LEADER FOR SCARF NE-CKBANDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,983, dated September 4, 1888 Application filed April 28, 1888. Serial No, 272,113. (No model.)

ToaZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, llIlCHAEL D. LEVY, of the city, county, and State of New Yorlghave invented a new and Improved Necktie, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists of the construction of the leader, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a view of the hack of a necktie having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the end of the band and leader. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the leader detached; and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 show modifications. Fig. 7 is an edge view of the upper end of theleader, showing the points closed.

A represents an ordinary scarf having a band, B. To the free end of the band is attached the leader 0, which grasps the end of the band at the front and back and compresses it, so that hemming is avoided, and so that the end is made very thin and will offer no obstruction to passing the leader and extremity of the band through the scarf. The leader is formed with the clasping and attaching hooks a a, which pass through the end of the band, and which are adapted to be pressed snugly upon the hand and passed under the keepers a e, which retain the points of the hooks and prevent them from catching in the material of the scarf. The hooks a a are by preference made integral with a single piece of wire, 0, which is bent in the center to form a triangle, 0', at the end, and twisted between the triangle and the hooks, as shown in Figs. 1," 2, 3, and 6, so that the whole is made of a single piece of wire and of the requisite stiffness.

In Fig. a the wire is shown without twists, and in some instances the leader may be made in this manner, but heavier wire would be required; and in Fig. 5 the leader is made of a flat plate, f, united to the hooks made of wire.

The dotted lines in Fig. 6 illustrate a lateral spring action of the hooks a, produced by the bows a a", which act as guards to the end of the band in being drawn through the scarf. In passing through the scarf, when the bows a a come in contact with the sides of the opening in the scarf, the hooks are forced toward each other and the end of the band contracted edgewise, so that the leader and band pass through without material strain upon them and without wear upon the lining of the necktie.

By the use of the hooks a a the end of the band may be made very thin, and labor is saved in attaching the leader, as no sewing is required, and in case the end becomes torn the leader can be detached, the end trimmed off, and the leader easily attached again, making the band as good as new.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, aleader comprising a long narrow body, flattened at one end and having penetrating-hooks a at the other end of the body, and keepers a for the points of the hooks, formed between the body of the leader and the hooks, substantially as described.

2. The neckband B, combined with the leader G, having hooks a, keepers a, and side bows, (4- which act as spring-guards to the end of the said band, substantially as described.

3. The leader G, comprising a long narrow body, triangle 0 at one end. hooks a at the opposite end, and the keepers a for the points of the hooks, formed between the main portion of the hooks and the body of the leader, substantially as described.

MICHAEL D. LEVY.

W'itnesses:

H. A. Wnsr, C. SEDGWICK. 

